In his 2012 State of the Union Address, President Obama laid out several key points for his energy policy in the coming year.
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The FBI just announced plans to ramp up their social media monitoring, data mining, and analysis. The surprising thing is that they haven't done so already.
Read More »Patents By The Numbers: Average Wait Time Is Down, But Trolls Cost Us $80 Billion A Year
Starting last fall and stretching through mid-2013, the U.S. has been overhauling the patent-approval process for the first time since 1952.
Read More »The 3-D Printing Pirates Who Could Render SOPA Meaningless
The Pirate Bay loves to be controversial --how could it not be, with its very existence an affront to much of the political mechanisms of American government?
Read More »Minding Jazz’s Main Stage
The biggest names in jazz have flocked to a basement in New York City's Greenwich Village: Lorraine Gordon's The Village Vanguard. Here's how she did it. For 77 years , the biggest names in jazz have flocked to a basement in New York City's Greenwich Village
Read More »Best Place for Young Entrepreneurs?
Looking for a supportive start-up community in which to launch your venture but hoping to skip the extreme competition of the likes of Silicon Valley? If you hurry, New Orleans may be the answer.
Read More »Finding a treatment for Alzheimer’s by 2025
As experimental drug fails to help one NY woman, the government sets ambitious -- but unfunded goals
Read More »Generation Flux: Beth Comstock
A conversation with Beth Comstock, GE's chief marketing officer. She is responsible for Ecomagination and Healthymagination, GE efforts that account for billions of dollars in sales.
Read More »How the Euro Crisis Could Be Good For You
Is the economic turmoil overseas a crisis--or an opportunity? Here's a look at a few savvy American companies reaping the benefits of European market instability
Read More »Generation Flux: Raina Kumra
Raina Kumra is a former documentary filmmaker, digital strategy guru at Wieden+Kennedy, and founder of Light Up Malawi, but is now a federal contractor--the Codirector of Innovation at the federal agency, the Broadcasting Board of Governors. @font-face { font-family: 'FCKaiserCondWebRegular'; src: url('/sites/all/themes/fc_v1/scripts/mod2011/fckaiser-cond-web-regular-webfont.eot'); src: url('/sites/all/themes/fc_v1/scripts/mod2011/fckaiser-cond-web-regular-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'), url('/sites/all/themes/fc_v1/scripts/mod2011/fckaiser-cond-web-regular-webfont.woff') format('woff'), url('/sites/all/themes/fc_v1/scripts/mod2011/fckaiser-cond-web-regular-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'), url('/sites/all/themes/fc_v1/scripts/mod2011/fckaiser-cond-web-regular-webfont.svg# FCKaiserCondWebRegular') format('svg'); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; } .kaiser, .kaiser a {font-family: 'FCKaiserCondWebRegular', Helvetica, sans-serif !important; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height:1; font-size:40px!important;color:#333; text-decoration:underline;} .kaiser a:hover {color:#666;} .kaiser {text-decoration:none;font-size:30px!important;} .sidebox {float:right;border:1px solid #e6e6e6;background-color:#fafafa!important;width:200px;padding:5px;margin:0px 0px 10px 10px;} .sidebox a {color:#e80681;font-weight:bold;} .sidebox p {font-size:13px;} .bottombox {background:#f2f2f2;border:1px solid #d8d8d8;padding:15px;} .bottombox img {display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle;width:50px;height:50px;padding:6px;} .bottombox a {display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle;width:70px;font-size:12px;line-height:1.2em; color:#e8007e;font-weight:bold;} Photo by Brooke Nipar "Fear holds a lot of people back," says Raina Kumra, 34. "I'm skill hoarding
Read More »Use An iPhone? Yup, The Government Tracks That
Last week, an Indian hacker crew successfully broke into a secured Indian military government network. The group, the Lords of Dharmaraja, posted documents that infer Apple, Nokia, and Research In Motion gave the Indian government backdoor access to their devices in exchange for mobile phone market rights.
Read More »3 More Reasons SOPA Should Scare You
Inc.com joins the ranks of companies hoping that Congress doesn't vote to break the Internet by approving SOPA and PIPA. Here's why. Sometime quite soon , your member of Congress will vote to destroy the Internet, or not
Read More »This Week In Bots: Extra-Terrestrial Aircraft, Telepresence Cat-Stroking, And Robot App Stores
Drones on Titan Titan, a moon of Saturn, is mysterious and fascinating to us: Its cloudly atmosphere and slushy liquid-methane surface is a true glimpse into an alien world, and it's not too far away. We've briefly explored its atmosphere and its odd chemical-soaked surface, but
Read More »Our Perfect Merger (and Acquisition)
In a single year, a couple got married, got pregnant, and founded a fast-growing company.
Read More »Our Perfect Merger (and Acquisition)
In a single year, a couple got married, got pregnant, and founded a fast-growing company. Two-thousand and five was the year of the perfect merger and acquisition
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